We, who are about to die...

We, who are about to die salute you… The idea that sport for the sake of sportsmanship and fair play seems fairly straight forward but there are gray areas in the statement. People can be a good sport and take performance enhancing products. I would say drugs but not all of the performance enhancing things are drugs or are illegal if you are not a competing amateur or professional athlete. Hell the same people can follow every rule of the game and even call themselves for rule infractions of the game and still seek some form of enhancement. The thing is everyone tries to find a way to win, or gain some advantage. How much money did the NFL spend trying to figure out if there was the right amount of air in the footballs used in a single game; which in the overall importance in the grand scheme of things is nothing. Because it simply does not matter at all, not even a little bit, ever. These are games, games which we have perverted into a money making quasi religion. I don’t even know how many TV networks are devoted to coverage of just sport and nothing else. They don’t even stop for real news like natural disasters. Right now people are in a fervor because 15 kids playing for Michigan screwed the pouch, but 15 kids playing for Middle Tennessee and their disciples are living the dream. I use this not so say anyone is doing anything illegal in Tennessee but as an example that we tend to not to focus on what is really important. You know that people are dying of something somewhere, whist we bounce a rubber ball and toss it into a hoop suspended off the ground. Most of those people are likely to die, even if you do try to help, so why not bounce a ball and toss it into a hoop. But if we are going to mega size sport and turn on the profit machine and treat college students like professional sport figures and amateur athletics as a proving ground for many of the professional sport arenas, why bother calling any of them amateurs at all. Even if it isn’t using performance enhancers, or finding the right air pressure, or sticky tar, or cork in a bat or whatever, teams will still try to jockey wins and losses to play the right sequence of teams in a tournament to have a match against a team they think they can beat. Scheduling meetings and bargaining to play this team or that team or not play this team or that team and when. It is madness that so many people care, and not just care, they are fervently passionate about something which is so trivial. More people care more deeply about who is playing some sport than who is possibly going to run the US government or what those fucktards in the US Congress and Senate are doing, all of them not just one side, they all suck. But so few people say a damn thing. But by golly, we sure do give one hundred fucks about, our team and that sport. Let me recite all I know about the players and the strategy and that coach of ours is, a saint or a goat, depending on how the season is going. What are we afraid is going to happen, if we lift guidelines from sport and let players use performance enhancers or get crafty with the equipment. Do we think the will become Gladiatorial games? They already are, why do people watch racing, it isn’t because they like left turns, we secretly want to see a crash, we hope no one dies but we really don’t care one way or the other either. I mean seriously if we care, did we would stop it because you might die. But we don’t care, we even euphemize it and make ourselves feel better by saying things like; “they knew the risks” or “he/she died doing what they loved." Welcome to Rome, enjoy the Games… looks like Nero might become the next leader of the Republic too, so they should be even better soon, wonder what he’ll do this time, when the cities start to burn. SPQR… oops …I mean ESPN Well, that’s all for now, other stuff to follow most likely Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday Thank you for reading, please subscribe, Have a great day and play nice in the neighborhood. Ciao, Invisible Don PS 3 / PS4 Gamer Tag: invisible don Invisible Don PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015 Send me Post Cards … I love Post Cards